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Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
90%) & develop latent ... tuberculosis (LTBI) Pathophysiology ... characteristic features ... Tuberculin skin test ... TB #Diagnosis #Management
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
90%) & develop latent ... tuberculosis (LTBI) Pathophysiology ... characteristic features ... Tuberculin skin test ... TB #Diagnosis #Management
Acromegaly - Diagnosis and Management Summary - GrepMed Handbook 

Clinical Presentation: 
 • Classic Acromegaly: frontal
Diagnosis and Management ... coarsening facial features ... malignancy Pathophysiology ... Differential Diagnosis ... glucose suppression test
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)
Acute autoimmune demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness
Epidemiology:
 • Incidence: 1
peripheral nerve components ... • The cardinal features ... and sensitive tests ... the underlying pathophysiology ... Syndrome #diagnosis #management
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
monophasic Pathophysiology ... Alterations: - Sensory features ... negative, MOG-IgG test ... Myelitis #diagnosis #management ... #neurology #differential